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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Marion an expert on?
(a) Landscape painting.
(b) Birds.
(c) Vegetable gardening.
(d) Town history
2. What is the weather at the beginning of Section 9?
(a) Snowy.
(b) Cold.
(c) Foggy.
(d) Hot.
3. What was the name of the navy ship William served on?
(a) U.S.S. Philadelphia.
(b) U.S.S. Mount Vernon.
(c) U.S S. Jefferson.
(d) U.S.S. Lake Champlain
4. How does William describe Cape Porpoise, Maine?
(a) White picket fence village.
(b) Suburban paradise.
(c) Messy and run down.
(d) Urban and sophisticated.
5. What river does William cross to get into Gallipolis, Ohio?
(a) Ohio River.
(b) Green River.
(c) Columbus River.
(d) Mississippi River.
6. Who planted a symbolic privet-hedge labyrinth in Harmonie in 1820?
(a) Businessmen.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Methodists.
(d) Rappites.
7. What do Fred and his wife like to watch on television?
(a) Sports.
(b) Game shows.
(c) News.
(d) History programs.
8. At the end of his journey, what time of day does William plan to reach Columbia?
(a) Lunchtime.
(b) Morning.
(c) Early afternoon.
(d) Nightfall.
9. For what did the Nez Perce Indians value Captain Clark?
(a) His boastfulness.
(b) His ability to tell a story.
(c) His ability to dress a wound.
(d) His humor.
10. Where does William meet Bob Goldsmith?
(a) Ocean City, Maryland.
(b) Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Trenton, New Jersey.
11. Where does William meet Pete Marvin and his family?
(a) Buffalo, New York.
(b) Canandaigua Lake, New York.
(c) Cleveland, Ohio.
(d) Lake Placid, New York.
12. To what is Tom referring when he says 'If there's something better to eat, I never ate it"?
(a) Maple cream.
(b) Steak.
(c) Green beans.
(d) Chocolate cake.
13. What is the natural wonder that stands 300 feet high on the northern Oregon coast?
(a) Haystack Rock.
(b) Fairy Mountain.
(c) Flowerpot Rocks.
(d) Sandstone Rocks.
14. What is the Algonquian name for the river that means "white shining"?
(a) Wabash.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Evanston.
(d) Whitman.
15. How old is the farmhouse that Pete and his wife refurbished?
(a) Eighty years.
(b) One hundred years.
(c) Two hundred years.
(d) Thirty years.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does William travel from the Adirondacks in New York to the state of Vermont?
2. What town does William look up in the library of Oregon State University?
3. With what did Duncan McDougal threaten the Indian population in order to save the town of Astoria, Oregon?
4. How does William describe his truck in the last page of the book?
5. What university did Tom attend for two years?
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